IEC 61499 as an Enabler of Distributed and Intelligent Automation: A State-of-the-Art Review—A Different View

Thramboulidis, Kleanthis

doi:10.1155/2013/638521

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“…Even software design patterns for IEC 61499 programs, e.g., Distributed Application, Proxy and Model-View-Controller, were defined (Christensen, 2000) and evaluated (Strömman et al, 2005). However, although IEC 61499 runtimes on state of the art controllers exist (Vyatkin, 2011), "IEC 61499 has a long way in order to be seriously considered by the industry" (Thramboulidis, 2013).…”

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Evolution of software in automated production systems: Challenges and research directions

Vogel‐Heuser

Fay

Schaefer

et al. 2015

Journal of Systems and Software

252

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a b s t r a c tCoping with evolution in automated production systems implies a cross-disciplinary challenge along the system's life-cycle for variant-rich systems of high complexity. The authors from computer science and automation provide an interdisciplinary survey on challenges and state of the art in evolution of automated production systems. Selected challenges are illustrated on the case of a simple pick and place unit. In the first part of the paper, we discuss the development process of automated production systems as well as the different type of evolutions during the system's life-cycle on the case of a pick and place unit. In the second part, we survey the challenges associated with evolution in the different development phases and a couple of cross-cutting areas and review existing approaches addressing the challenges. We close with summarizing future research directions to address the challenges of evolution in automated production systems.

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolution of software in automated production systems: Challenges and research directions

Vogel‐Heuser

Fay

Schaefer

et al. 2015

Journal of Systems and Software

252

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“…The approach proposed in this paper is platform independent in general and should also work well in case of automation software based on IEC 61499. Although this standard is not widely-used in the industry at the moment [31], this may change in the coming years. One of the best known reference implementations of the IEC 61499, ISaGRAF, utilizes the function block and sequential function chart concepts of the IEC 61131 to implement IEC 61499 [32].…”

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Towards industrial application of model-driven platform-independent PLC programming using UML

Tikhonov

Schütz

Ulewicz

et al. 2014

IECON 2014 - 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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To manage the increasing complexity of automation software, new development methods are needed. The model-driven development (MDD) approaches are very promising here. However, switching to the MDD in industrial software development practice is complicated, and required efforts are often very high. Therefore, the MDD approaches are still far from the widespread industrial usage. With the presented approach the next steps towards the industrial application of MDD technologies are performed. The approach is not intended to replace existing development practices in industry, but it aims at the step-by-step introduction of MDD technologies into industrial software development.

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“…Although the IEC 61131-3 standard has been widely used in industrial automation domain, this standard is incapable of addressing the requirements of today's complex industrial systems [11]. To overcome this limitation, the IEC 61499 standard which was upgraded from the existing IEC 61131-3 architecture was introduced [12].…”

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Assessing Complexity of Component-Based Control Architectures Used in Modular Automation Systems

Alkan¹,

Vera²,

Chinnathai³

et al. 2017

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Component-based development (CBD) supports hierarchical decomposition of manufacturing control architectures through data and procedural abstraction, allowing designers to handle system development complexity better than function-oriented methods. Although the CBD approach helps managing complexity of the software design and development process, it does not reduce or eliminate complexity of control systems. In fact, large and highly coupled system architectures make entire software very difficult to understand and modify, especially during manufacturing system re-configuration and scale up/down processes. Therefore, it is essential to maintain simplicity in control system design, without disregarding the required modularity and functionality. This paper proposes an information-theoretic measure to quantify the complexity of component-based manufacturing control systems. The proposed measure is tested over the auto-generated control codes of Festo MPS system for its validity. The authors believe that the proposed approach can serve as a proactive design support, especially useful for early design stages as it allows designers to select the optimal control architectures with least complexity and provides a clear understanding of the potential stress points.

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IEC 61499 as an Enabler of Distributed and Intelligent Automation: A State-of-the-Art Review—A Different View

Cited by 19 publications

References 23 publications

Evolution of software in automated production systems: Challenges and research directions

Evolution of software in automated production systems: Challenges and research directions

Towards industrial application of model-driven platform-independent PLC programming using UML

Assessing Complexity of Component-Based Control Architectures Used in Modular Automation Systems

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